Races

After three failed attempts to train for a marathon, I was knocked out of running for four years due to an assortment of injuries. A hip had been pounded badly out of alignment from running on so much pavement, my lower back was ravaged from the pounding of the pavement and the aforementioned hip, patellar tendinosis had annihilated both of my knees and an old foot injury flared back up.

The 26-year-old body felt like it was about 62.

Five months of training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro brought the old body back to life by June of 2010, however. A chiropractor popped my hip and back into some semblance of order, strength training helped stability return to my knees, and the accomplishment of reaching Uhuru Peak ignited the motivation to take on more challenges. Among them — to start running again.

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Rockin K Marathon 2012….I was the guy in black on a few of your shots both still and video…you did a great job! I have run that course 5 times now…4 times with a couple of 50 mile finishes and this year the one loop in the marathon…the rockin K course is my favorite…lots of variety….even came across an 8 foot western diamondback rattlesnake last year on my second loop of the 50 mile…lucky that he and I didn’t tangle since there weren’t any runners around me at the time to help me out…..see that you are signed up for Dogwood Canyon…so am I….I finished the 50k there in 2009…a great course there also….lots of water crossings….see you there!…..Gary from Illinois.

I’ll be wearing trail shoes. I always run in the Brooks Adrenaline ASR 8s, so I’m going to stick with what has been working for me. I know a lot of the course is on old mining roads so there may be a fair amount of dirt or gravel. I’m hoping to drive to the aid stations and get a look at more of the course when I get to Leadville on Thursday.

I was looking for race reports for Meet Your Maker and your blog came up. Great writing and very interesting for another midwestern trail runner to read. It’s interesting that we’ve run some of the same races in the past (Psycho Wyco & Silver Rush) and also running Psycho Summer, pacing/crewing for the LT100, and Meeting My Maker this year. There’s a few ultras in Omaha that you might enjoy in October if you’re interested.